Mission & Application Systems

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Data memory boost bid

A project called Memtonomy at Fraunhofer IESE, Germany, is aiming to tackle the memory storage challenge in driverless vehicles. The constantly growing use of sensors and AI components in driverless cars is creating the need for large amounts of data to be recorded, merged and analysed in real time.

New Products

GCS is UAV-agnostic

UAV Navigation has launched a next-generation ground station that is designed to handle multiple types of UAVs, including those for maritime missions. The GCS is based around the GHU-100, a new ground control hub that helps platform manufacturers connect multiple ground devices such as the PC, data links and joystick controllers, and forms a single network segment.

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Fog-proof coating

An optical coating that combines anti-fogging and anti-reflective properties to boost the performance of Lidar systems and image sensors has been unveiled.

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Solid-state Lidars boost

Researchers in Japan have developed a new type of laser diode that can boost the performance of solid-state Lidar sensors. Photonic-Crystal Surface-Emitting Lasers (PCSELs) are built from two different types of materials with a large refractive index contrast, such as air and semiconductors.

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Neural net’s night crashes assistance

A spiking neural network built using memtransistors can help prevent collisions between autonomous vehicles at night. Almost half of fatal accidents occur at night. As vehicles become autonomous, the ways of detecting and avoiding these collisions must evolve too, but current systems are often complicated, resource-intensive or work poorly in the dark.